Simon Goldsworthy

United Kingdom

Biography

Simon Goldsworthy has 16 years’ clinical experience in radiotherapy, and 5 concurrent years in research. Simon works closely with the multi-profession team including oncologists, physicists and RTTs to develop the technical aspects of the service, manage portfolio trials in radiotherapy, and undertake local research within his PhD programme. Simons work has focused on improving the use of positioning and immobilisation in radiotherapy, and more recently (4 years) to improve patient experiences such as comfort aiming to improve radiotherapy accuracy for his PhD work. This focus led Simon to the co-development of a project to un-mask radiotherapy for patients with head and neck cancer. Simon is making a go of cutting edge person centred care to improve patient’s outcomes.